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A switching power supply device has a boost power converter which converts a wide range of AC input voltages into a DC voltage larger than an amplitude of the AC input voltage to supply to a DC-DC converter. The switching power supply device includes a load detection circuit, an input voltage detection circuit, and a power conversion controller for the boost power converter. The power conversion controller corrects the determination reference value in accordance with the AC input voltage detected in the input voltage detection circuit. When a light load is detected based on a comparison between the corrected determination reference value and the detection value output from the load detection circuit, the controller disables the boost power converter.

An n-type first base layer is formed on a semiconductor substrate 1 having a first major surface and a second major surface, and a p-type second base layer is formed thereon. Between the first base layer and the second base layer, a carrier stored layer is formed. The carrier stored layer has a high-concentration impurity layer and a low concentration impurity layer, and the high-concentration impurity layer has a thickness of 1.5 μm or more and an impurity concentration therethrough is made to be 1.0×10¹⁶ cm⁻³ or more throughout the layer.

A driver circuit for generating a driving signal by pulse-width modulation (PWM) includes a half-bridge circuit formed essentially of a pair of series-connected FETs. When the level of an ultrasonic signal, or of the driving signal, is to be maximized, the individual FETs are switched at a switching frequency matched to the frequency of the driving signal. When the level of the ultrasonic signal, or the driving signal is to be reduced, on the other hand, the individual FETs are switched with specific timing determined based on the frequency of a clock signal of which period is shorter than that of the driving signal.

A resonator, a filter, and a duplexer are provided which are capable of very effectively suppressing the power loss caused by the edge effect, and which allow a great reduction in the overall size to be achieved. Also, a communication device including the above-mentioned filter or duplexer is provided. A ground electrode is formed over the bottom surface of a dielectric substrate, and a multiple spiral line pattern is formed on the top surface thereof. A radial line pattern is further formed on this surface with an insulation layer interposed therebetween. By thus disposing the radial pattern adjacently to the multiple spiral resonator constituted of the above-mentioned multiple spiral line, an electrostatic capacitance is added to the multiple spiral resonator. This reduces the occupation area of the resonator on the substrate, and improves the loss reduction effect.

Provided is a voltage regulator including an overcurrent protection circuit, which is capable of enhancing accuracy of a limit current value and a short-circuit current value, and suppressing electric power loss when an overcurrent flows through an output transistor. The overcurrent protection circuit includes: an output current detection transistor controlled by an output voltage of an error amplifier circuit, for feeding a detection current; a detection resistor for generating a detection voltage based on the detection current; a second error amplifier circuit for amplifying a difference between a voltage set by a second reference voltage and a divided voltage, and the voltage of the detection resistor, and outputting the amplified difference; and an output current limiting circuit in which a gate thereof is controlled by an output of the second error amplifier circuit, for controlling a gate voltage of the output transistor. Further, the second reference voltage is supplied from a temperature detection circuit.

A battery protective device that protects against battery damage and semiconductor destruction from overdischarge and overcharge of the battery. Resistance across switching elements is controllable to prevent current leakage through parasitic dipole elements in the integrated circuit. Current is detected with an overdischarge detecting circuit and an overcharge detecting circuit. Direction of the current to/from the battery is detected by discharge overcurrent and charge overcurrent detecting circuits. Switching discharge FETs and charge FETs are enabled as independently controlled, ON-OFF parallel switching elements, interposed in series in the charge/discharge current path of the battery. Only a part of the discharge or charge switching FETs can be turned ON and OFF for accurate current control in accordance with the detected current and its direction.

A resonator includes a hollow dielectric element having a hole therein, a helical line unit including a plurality of helical lines formed in the hole, and a ground electrode formed on an outer surface of the dielectric element.

A high-frequency circuit comprising first and second antenna terminals, a transmitting terminal and first and second receiving terminals for first and second communications systems, and first and second switch circuits each having a common terminal and at least first and second switching terminals; the first antenna terminal being connected to a common terminal of the first switch circuit, the transmitting terminal for the first communications system being connected to the first switching terminal of the first switch circuit, the second antenna terminal being connected to a common terminal of the second switch circuit, the transmitting terminal for the second communications system being connected to the first switching terminal of the second switch circuit, each first receiving terminal for the first and second communications systems being connected to the second switching terminal of the first switch circuit via a first receiving-side multiplexer circuit, each second receiving terminal for the first and second communications systems being connected to the second switching terminal of the second switch circuit via a second receiving-side multiplexer circuit.

In a shape memory alloy actuator driving device, a predetermined constant current is applied to a shape memory alloy member as a retrieval signal to detect a terminal voltage of the shape memory alloy member, and a detection result of the terminal voltage is compared with a target voltage value to be calculated based on a target resistance value of the shape memory alloy member and a value of the constant current to cause a driving circuit to output, to the shape memory alloy member, a drive current that makes the detection result substantially equal to the target voltage value.

A power inverter is provided that can apply to an AC rotary machine three-phase voltages of high amplitudes and low distortion while suppressing ohmic loss attributed to current detection resisters. The power inverter includes a superimposed voltage command computing means for computing and outputting a superimposed voltage command depending on the difference between a maximum value and a minimum value of three-phase voltage commands; a voltage command modification means for adding the superimposed voltage command to each of the three-phase voltage commands and outputting modified three-phase voltage commands; and a power output means for outputting the three-phase voltages based on the modified three-phase voltage commands.

This discharge power supply apparatus is for supplying a D. C. voltage to a discharge load 6 and discharging the same. The discharge power supply apparatus includes an inverter circuit 2 that converts D. C. voltage to A. C. voltage; a transformer 3 having a primary winding 3a to which the A. C. voltage output by the inverter circuit 2 is supplied and a secondary winding 3b; a full-wave rectifier circuit 4 that has a plurality of diodes 4A to 4D and rectifies the A. C. voltage generated by the secondary winding 3b; and a trigger capacitor 7 connected in parallel to a part of the diodes of the full-wave rectifier circuit 4.

The present invention provides a switching power supply device capable of suppressing power loss in a starting circuit even when an input voltage rises. The input voltage detection part 21 detects the input voltage, and when the peak value of the input AC voltage is above a predetermined value, the transistor Q6 of the starting current control part 25 is turned off, and the current i1 flowing in the starting circuit 21 is reduced, so The conduction angle of the transistor Q6 is narrowed in inverse proportion to the input voltage Vi, and the average value of the current i flowing in the starting circuit 21 is decreased in inverse proportion to the input voltage Vi.

Provided is an optical module that is thin, allows freedom of design in configuration, and assures the accuracy of movement of an optical part while suppressing power loss. A stepping motor 26 and a lens barrel 27 that is moved by moving means 28 are positioned offset from each other along a base plate 23, and the optical axis of the lens barrel 27 and the axis of a rotor 37 provided in the stepping motor 26 are arranged in parallel with each other on one surface of the base plate 23. Further, a reduction gear train 29, which operatively couples the rotor 37 and the moving means 28 together, is arranged on the one surface. The stepping motor 26 consists of a flat-shaped motor equipped with: coil blocks 35 each having an excitation coil 39 horizontally mounted along the base plate 23; a yoke 36 whose magnetic path portion 36a excluding end portions 36b and 36c connected with the coil blocks 35 is provided so as not to overlap the coil blocks 35; and the rotor 37 arranged within a rotor pass-through hole 40 of the yoke 36.